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From: colonel@gloria.UUCP (Col. G. L. Sicherman)
Newsgroups: net.games
Subject: Re: Checkers games wanted
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Date: Tue, 30-Apr-85 09:20:59 EDT
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Posted: Tue Apr 30 09:20:59 1985
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["We were playing Seven-Man Seymour with the chambermaid, sire."]

> In article <305@philabs.UUCP> dal@philabs.UUCP (Dan Lorenzini) writes:
> >Does anyone have a UNIX version of checkers or chinese checkers that they are
> >willing to share?

> Yes, I wrote a checkers playing program perhaps ten years ago.
> It is the continental version (play on a 10x10 board, rules not quite
> the same as the british version) - maybe you call it draughts.

If he's used to Scotch checkers, he probably won't be interested in
Polish (continental) checkers.  Maybe Arthur Samuel's famous program
is still around.  You could write to him ...

	"In Scotch checkers you have to do something Scotch, such
	as playing hop-scotch or eating butter-scotch." --Howard R. Garis
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Col. G. L. Sicherman
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